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  Jean-Paul Marat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The eldest child of Jean Paul Marat, a native of Cagliari in Sardinia, and Louise Cabrol of Geneva, Marat was born at Boudry, in the principality of Neuchâtel, on May 24, 1743.
On his mother's death in 1759 Marat set out on his travels, and spent two years at Bordeaux in the study of medicine, whence be moved to Paris, where he made use of his knowledge of his two favorite sciences, optics and electricity, to subdue an obstinate disease of the eyes.
Marat thought that England was at this time being ruled by an oligarchy using the forms of liberty, which, while pretending to represent the country, was really being gradually mastered by the royal power.
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 Jean-Paul Marat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Marat was soon in great request as a court doctor among the aristocracy; and even Brissot, in his Memoires, admits his influence in the scientific world of Paris.
Marat had seen that England was at this time being ruled by an oligarchy using the forms of liberty, which, while pretending to represent the country, was really being gradually mastered by the royal power.
Jacques-Louis David painted Marat Assassinated, and a veritable cult was rendered to the Friend of the People, whose ashes were transferred to the Pantheon with great pomp September 21, 1794 to be cast out again in virtue of the decree of the February 8, 1795.
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 JEAN PAUL MARAT - LoveToKnow Article on JEAN PAUL MARAT
On his mothers death ~fl 759 Marat set out on his travels, and spent two years at Bordeaux in the study of medicine, whence be moved to Paris, where he made use of his knowledge of his two favorite sciences, optics and electricity, to subdue an obstinate disease of the eyes.
Louis David painted Marat Assassinated, and a veritable cult was rendered to the Friend of the People, whose ashes were transferred to the Pantheon with great pomp on the 21st of September I794to be cast out again in virtue of the decree of the 8th of February 1795.
Marats name was long an object of execration on account of his insistence on the death penalty.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /M/MA/MARAT_JEAN_PAUL.htm   (1850 words)

  
 Degenerate - The Bastard in the Bathtub 8   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Marat was bathing in a high-walled tub positioned in the center of a large room.
It was from underground, in that most famous cellar, that Marat enlightened the people of their enemies and their friends: there let him rest in his death." Young girls in white gowns covered his coffin in flowers while cherubic young boys waving cyprus branches purified the air.
Marat was not alive to see Napoleon enter the scene and - selectively - adapt some of the principles of the Revolution to the greatest empire seen since the fall of Rome.
www.diacritica.com /degenerate/3/marat8.html   (1448 words)

  
 E. Belfort Bax: Marat (Chap.9)
Marat, as we know, was now confined to his room with lung trouble and nervous excitement, verging at times on brain fever, in addition to his chronic inflammatory skin disease.
Marat therefore might very well have had a hand in bringing some of these individuals to their doom, but as it happens he had no hand in it, and this from the conventional point of view ought surely to be regarded as denoting a kind of supererogatory virtue on his part.
Marat, as we know, held no official position whatever at this time, beyond that of the simple deputy, and had no power to order any one to be guillotined, either at Paris or anywhere else.
www.marxists.org /archive/bax/1900/marat/ch09.htm   (7211 words)

  
 The Death of Marat - Jacques-Louis David
Marat, friend of Robespierre, Jacobin deputy to the Convention, and editor-in-chief of L'Ami du Peuple, was a fiery orator; he was also a violent man, quick to take offense.
When Marat agreed to receive her, she stabbed him in his bathtub, where he was accustomed to sit hour after hour treating the disfiguring skin disease from which he suffered.
Marat is dying: his eyelids droop, his head weighs heavily on his shoulder, his right arm slides to the ground.
www.bc.edu /bc_org/avp/cas/his/CoreArt/art/neocl_dav_marat.html   (850 words)

  
 Stories   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The pose that Marat is in is reminiscent of the death of Christ.
Following Marat’s perfectly sculpted arm we are given another reminder that the hero is not actually dead, in his hand he still clutches his quill, dying in the middle of his benevolence.
Marat, however, suffered from a skin disease that ‘on periodic eruption, would turn his skin into a roasting mess of scaly flakes and sores’, he was not the angelic like figure presented in this picture.
www.qthelights.com /writing/marat.html   (1531 words)

  
 Marat
Marat, somewhat like Robespierre, believed that when he failed to achieve something it was inevitably due to a conspiracy of men determined to undermine the virtuous.
Marat's pent-up rage against authority, whom he didn't believe gave him the respect that his intellect demanded because they were in a conspiracy against him, was fueled by the suppression of his "Plan for Criminal Legislation" and his failure to be elected to the Academy of Sciences.
Marat does not assume nearly as much importance as Danton and Robespierre, but yet there remain certain touches that let you know that his influence was extraordinarily vast and that he was by far the most extreme of the three.
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 Degenerate - The Bastard in the Bathtub 3   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
But to focus on Marat's professional life in the British Isles and neglect his social existence, such as he had one, is unacceptable, for the most vital experiences that took place on the Island of Doctor Marat were yet to come.
By the time the Revolution rolled around, Marat was well into middle age - significantly older than nearly all of his contemporaries - and his rather unique understanding of personal hygiene probably put the kabosh on any sexual excitement he might have been able to rouse in himself.
Marat never acknowledged his crime, and during this period he mysteriously disappears from public records and private files.
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 Marat Safin
Marat Safin was born in Moscow on 27th January 1980 to Misha and Rausa Islanova.
Marat Safin's training on the red clay of Spain was paying off as he was one of four players to win at least 25 matches on clay (25-9) and hard (36-15) courts.
Marat Safin entered his first Tennis Masters Cup in Lisbon with a 75-point lead in ATP Champions Race over Kuerten and was twice within one victory of becoming youngest year-end No. 1.
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 News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Marat put himself in the same situation as in his previous match as he won the first set easily but then wasn’t able to put it away in the second.
Marat said to the journalists that it was a very important victory for him because of the conditions and the fact that he won the first set by coming from behind.
Marat put everyone up to date as far as his back is concerned by saying that he is pretty much in top shape and ready for this season.
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 adidas Verticals   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
All alone, Marat was faced with the prospect of learning a new language and honing his tennis skills in a foreign land.
A quarter-final placing in Paris spotlighted Marat as a force in Grand Slam play and Marat was chosen to be one of the main figures in the ""New Balls Please"" campaign by the ATP, who were promoting new, up and coming players.
Like with all thrill rides, Marat made a quick and stunning tour along the circuit and in a very brief time had captured his first Tennis Masters Series in Toronto, a final in Indianapolis, won the US Open, and captured his 5th title of the year in Tashkent.
www.adidas.com /verticals/tennis/us/MaratSafin.asp   (539 words)

  
 Canadian Journal of History: Jean-Paul Marat
Coquard's ach ievement is to liberate Marat's biography from this symbolic dimension and to place it squar ely in the context of the eighteenth century.
Coquard sees Marat as influential in he lping to inspire the overthrow of the monarchy on 10 August 1792, and as instrumental in forging an a lliance between the Jacobins and the popular movement during the struggle against the "G irondins" in 1792 - 93.
While manif ested in verbal expression, Marat's psychological distress does not seem to have signific antly impaired his interpersonal relationships -- though a certain "bad character" was reflecte d in his rather ungenerous treatment of those whose hospitality he depended upon while on the ru n from the authorities.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3686/is_199404/ai_n8713113   (827 words)

  
 Jean-Paul Marat
Marat's writings in his political paper, The Friend of the People or L'ami du Peuple, which attacked the all people in power, the aristocrats, and the bourgeoisie, greatly influenced the start of the Reign of Terror.
Marat served as an adviser to the first Paris Commune and as Deputy of the National Convention.
Marat also influenced his political power in the Jacobin Club and was often compared to the rising political power--Robespierre.
www.mtholyoke.edu /~etanter/marat.html   (367 words)

  
 Marat Karpeisky - 75   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Marat never had something which could be described as a specific scientific school — in terms of persuading a particular scientific direction of research.
The number of independently thinking scholars which was around Marat at any given time showed the real strength of his character as their teacher/mentor.
We pass Marat’s attitude to science to yet another generation of scholars and that is the best legacy Marat could have left.
www.eimb.relarn.ru /eimb/mk2.htm   (518 words)

  
 E. Belfort Bax: Marat (Chap.4)
In this part Marat describes the wickedness of princes and their lawgivers in strangling liberty by means of legislation prohibitive of all criticism of those in authority.
On the general question of sexual morality, Marat was in favour of equality between the sexes in the apportionment of the retributive consequences of the act.
On the particular question of prostitution, Marat points out that the only way to suppress it is to remove the misery of those women who are driven by poverty to put a price on their “virtue”.
www.marxists.org /archive/bax/1900/marat/ch04.htm   (4049 words)

  
 Amazon.com: DVD: Marat / Sade (1966)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Marat is, of course, the focus of this play and his role in the French Revolution and the subsequent Reign of Terror are vital facts.
Marat was a member of the Jacobin Club, a group of radical republican thinkers, directly responsible for these events, with the help of Girondists, less a political party and more of a group of like-minded thinkers.
In summary (or rather, not quite in his exact words,) Marat claims that they wear the cap of the people, but their underwear is embroidered with crowns and that the lot of them are the first to scream beggar, thief, or guttersnipe when a shop or two is looted.
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 The Confrontation Between Mireille and Marat
Mireille's life was in danger from Marat ever since the scene in the prison, where Valentine was killed; Mireille knew very well what danger she was in.
Marat sees Mireille with the knife and knows that she might kill him, but he also knows that she came to get the pieces and to find out about the nuns who died.
Marat's threat--the way he dares her to kill him--just when Simonne bursts into the room, is what forces Mireille to kill him.
www.geocities.com /Athens/Aegean/6634/marat.html   (4215 words)

  
 CGFA- David: The Death of Marat   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Marat, Robespierre's friend, a deputy to the Convention, and editor-in-chief of L'Ami du Peuple, was a fiery orator; he was also a violent man, quick to take offense.
When Marat agreed to receive her, she stabbed him in his bathtub, where he was wont to sit hour after hour treating the disfiguring skin disease from which he suffered.
David, who had been Marat's colleague in the Convention, saw in him a model of antique "virtue." The day after the murder, David was invited by the Convention to make arrangements for the funeral ceremony, and to paint Marat's portrait.
sunsite.icm.edu.pl /cgfa/jdavid/s-jdavid26.htm   (500 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Books: Marat/Sade, the Investigation, and the Shadow of the Coachman's Body   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The Marat Sade does have a captivating message, but much of the beauty in the delivery of the message may have been lost in the translation.
I do not claim to be an expert on Marat Sade or some official critic or well read for that matter but neither is the general public and that is who an artiest should want to reach considering they are the majority, even though they fall to rule.
The reenactment of the killing of Jean-Paul Marat by Charlotte Corday seems to be a secondary plot alongside of the chanting and screaming of idealism concerning the revolution and liberty.
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 CP Discussion Board - can marat safin out take rodger federa?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Marat is an inconsistent player - regardless of his AO - that's the bad news.
Right from the Beginning of the match it was clear that Marat had the power, the speed, the touch and actually even better spontaniety than Roger.
I though I was just imagining things -- that marat seems to get that "tunnel vision" where he succeeds in balancing the demands of his "demons" to come up with a win - the higher the stakes really go.
www.tennis.com /ME2/Apps/DiscussionBoard/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=198   (1374 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Jean Paul Marat (French History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
He continued to publish his paper in secret and successfully attacked Jacques Necker, the marquis de Lafayette, the commune, the comte de Mirabeau, the EmigrEs, and, finally, the king.
Marat's inflammatory articles helped foment the Aug. 10, 1792, uprising and the September massacres (see French Revolution).
More articles from AllRefer Reference on Jean Paul Marat
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 French culture | performing arts | Weiss's Marat / Sade , Boston March 2002
The persecution and assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as performed by the inmates of the Asylum of Charenton under the direction of the Marquis de Sade - or Marat/Sade, for short, is considered by many to be a theatrical marvel of the 20th-century.
When in 1793, Marat called for the end of monarchies, a young nun, Charlotte Corday, came from the provinces to kill him.
Sade dramatizes the stabbing of Marat in his bath with a cast of narcoleptics, paranoiacs, and schizophrenics.
www.info-france-usa.org /culture/perfo/events/02maratbostonmarch.html   (655 words)

  
 MensTennisForums.com - How did you all become Marat Safin fans?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
And I remember reading in the New York Times that Marat's mother Rauza was there in Atlanta suffering watching her son play Davis Cuip for the first time.
To me, Marat also seems like the kind of guy who would be nice to his fans if he had a minute.
And I hope Marat is not so satisfied with having a good life, that it takes away his hunger for being an all time great tennis player.
www.menstennisforums.com /printthread.php?t=409   (1217 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: DVD: Marat / Sade (Widescreen)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Dramatizing the final hours of French revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat (Ian Richardson) before he was killed by Charlotte Corday (Glenda Jackson, in one of the defining moments of her career), de Sade offers the play as an entertaining whim for the tiny audience of asylum director Coulmier (Clifford Rose) and his family.
"Marat/ Sade" is a film of that play, and it is filmed in a style that draws attention to the fact that we are watching a play.
Patrick Magee as de Sade, Glenda Jackson as the inmate playing Corday (it was her breakout performance), and Ian Richardson as the inmate playing Marat offering impressive performances; indeed, the ensemble cast as a whole is incredibly impressive, and they keep the extremely wordy script moving along with considerable interest.
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 Marat Safin Official
Marat has had to withdraw from the St. Petersburg Open as his knee is not yet ready.
For the French fans in Paris - look out for Marat in your city as he will be there from Monday practising to see if he can get his knee fit in time for Bercy.
It is a long hard battle and we must keep him in our thoughts.Marat did find time to watch sister Dinara at the Kremlin Cup this week and he was very proud of her getting to the semis in both singles and doubles.
www.maratsafin.com   (175 words)

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